Fuck You Amnesty International

As reported in today’s Sunday Times, the Head of the Gender Unit at Amnesty International’s secretariat, Gita Sahgal spoke of the decision by the UK chapter of AI to partner with Moazzam Begg and Cageprisoners.

In an email sent to Amnesty’s top bosses, she suggests the charity has mistakenly allied itself with Begg and his “jihadi” group, Cageprisoners, out of fear of being branded racist and Islamophobic.

Sahgal describes Begg as “Britain’s most famous supporter of the Taliban”. He has championed the rights of jailed Al-Qaeda members and hate preachers, including Anwar al-Awlaki, the alleged spiritual mentor of the Christmas Day Detroit plane bomber.

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“As a former Guantanamo detainee it was legitimate to hear his experiences, but as a supporter of the Taliban it was absolutely wrong to legitimise him as a partner,” Sahgal told The Sunday Times.

An official press-release by AI stated that human rights are for all, and even supporters of violent jihad have the right to be officially endorsed by AI.

A statement from Sahgal reveals that – presumably for violating confidentiality agreements – she has been suspended by AI:

This morning the Sunday Times published an article about Amnesty International’s association with groups that support the Taliban and promote Islamic Right ideas. In that article, I was quoted as raising concerns about Amnesty’s very high profile associations with Guantanamo-detainee Moazzam Begg. I felt that Amnesty International was risking its reputation by associating itself with Begg, who heads an organization, Cageprisoners, that actively promotes Islamic Right ideas and individuals.

Within a few hours of the article being published, Amnesty had suspended me from my job.

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5 Responses to “Fuck You Amnesty International”

This is disgusting… jihadists are putting bombs at girls schools and spilling acid over their faces… they cannot be treated in the same measure as the traditional victims of state oppression whose defence led to the creation of Amnesty and other Human rights groups.

One thing is to say, for the sake of principles, that torture should be opposed to even in such cases, another is to treat them as if they were some kind of dissidents of the new post-post-cold war era…